Vietnam Projects
Global Village Foundation
Donate books for a portable library project while you explore Vietnam...The Global Village Foundation was established in 1999 by Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese-American who grew up in a poor village in central Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Her life story has been the inspiration for several internationally published articles, books and films. She is the author of two autobiographical bestsellers, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace, which were adapted into the 1994 film Heaven and Earth, directed by Oliver Stone and released by Warner Bros. The primary mission of the Global Village Foundation is to focus on humanitarian work and the promotion of nonviolence and peace. GVF funds and provides construction for kindergartens, primary schools, and cultural and vocational training centers in rural areas of Asia, in order to break generational cycles of poverty, illiteracy and hopelessness, while still preserving the unique heritage of Asian village life.
In 2006 GVF plans to focus efforts on helping eliminate child illiteracy throughout Vietnam through our Portable Libraries Project, and to initiate a comprehensive program of dental health and hygiene through our Dental Health and Education Project, or DHEP.
Thanh Xuan Peace Village - Hanoi
--located outside the Hanoi city-center the center provides shelter, food, health check-ups, education, supervision, and love for over 100 second and third generation children who are the victims of dioxin (or agent orange) used during the American-Vietnam War.
Saigon Children’s Charity –Saigon
Saigon Children's Charity takes simple, practical steps to ensure that needy Vietnamese children get an education. They build schools, give scholarships, provide vocational training and offer micro loans that enable the poorest families to make a living and educate their own children.
Mekong Delta Sampan Donation – A sampan (wooden boat) provides a means for making a living, feeding a family, as well as a method of transportation in the Mekong Delta. For some families supporting multiple generations the expense of a sampan is beyond their means. Donating a sampan can change the life of a family by offering means to eat and sell fish as well as providing transport to school. Make this a reality for a family. Send your donation ahead of time and then travel out to this vast and remote area by boat to visit the family for the donation ceremony while in-country.
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